Hardballer-ish 1911 ?

Biggfoot44 · Nov 17, 2015

No , I'm not discussing the "Best" 1911 , or your personal favorite. I'm looking for specific combination of features.

Those of us of certain age , visualize the late '70's AMT Hardbqller , itself resembling '70s Gold Cup , in brushe s t*
Stainless ( b reaskthru aat time). .

Other than orig , whqt of more recent vint*ge hqs re*r only serrations , adj sight , serr*ted rib on top ?

joppaj · Nov 17, 2015

Please retype this...

Kman · Nov 17, 2015

mark71211 · Nov 17, 2015

I'm lost on this post?

S&W19 · Nov 17, 2015

Even after a couple of beers, I can't make out what he is saying. May need a couple more.

foodpoison · Nov 17, 2015

Perh@ps his his keybo@rd is j@cked up @g@in

BossmanPJ · Nov 17, 2015

He says " Resembling a 70's Gold Cup in brushed stainless ( breakthrough at the time ).

"Rear only serrations, adjustable sight, serrated rib on top."

I remember the Hardballer model. Can't really think of anything that matches the long slide with the other features.

BossmanPJ · Nov 17, 2015

S&W19 said:
Even after a couple of beers, I can't make out what he is saying. May need a couple more.

I must have had the correct amount. I can decipher it perfectly. Haha

Viper21773 · Nov 17, 2015

http://www.edbrown.com/executivetarget.htm

Blaster229 · Nov 17, 2015

AMT HardBaller

BossmanPJ · Nov 17, 2015

Blaster229 said:
AMT HardBaller

Yeah that one is pretty close. Haha.

I actually learned something tonight... I thought all of the Hardballer pistols were long slide models. I didn't realize they made a standard 5" model as well.

BossmanPJ · Nov 17, 2015

How was the quality on these? I had an AMT Backup in .380 and it was complete junk.

S&W19 · Nov 17, 2015

BossmanPJ said:
I must have had the correct amount. I can decipher it perfectly. Haha

You are ahead of me, sir. I am catching up.

JDH146 · Nov 17, 2015

For Reference http://www.gunbroker.com/All/BI.aspx?Keywords=hardballer

Biggfoot44 · Nov 18, 2015

5in was first, longslide , 4in , & 5in fixed sights came later.Later ones had beAvertail & beveled magwells, not sure about timeline of those changes & namechange to Galena Industries.

Quality ? 1st tier of 1stGen 1911 Clones, & reasonably close to mid 1970 vintage Colts. ( Take that as whichever combo of praise of AMT & Slam of 1970's Colt as prefered. The current expectations of out of box reliability for 1911's didn't occur until mid 1980's.)

But anyway , no ideas for Hardballer/ Gold Cup -ish slides other than the origonals ? ( Disregarding Ed Brown & similar $$$ .)

SRD · Nov 18, 2015

foodpoison said:
Perh@ps his his keybo@rd is j@cked up @g@in

Rockzilla · Nov 18, 2015

The only problems that they were noted for was the only ammo they liked was "ball", FTF with anything else, sometimes "stove pipes", when reloading they didn't like H&G 68 style bullets, had to be round nose, but with some mods both the Hard Baller and the Long Slide shot fine. Used the L.S. as a pin gun, Bucheimer made a holster for it, kinda funny looking. Have a few hundred rounds through both no problems. Some say they rattled because of the slide to frame fit, both I have are tight and have "recoil" buffers in them, that's what they called them back then.Some smith's back around that time were taking S&W rear sights and milling the slides on the Colts and attaching them, also Bomar rear sights, have both. Anyway would love to build a Long-slide-ish 1911..."one of these days" with the many other "to do build list"

-Rock

erwos · Nov 18, 2015

You can buy a real-deal Hardballer on GB for like $600. So it's hardly out of reach for someone who wants that particular gun, except for all the money you're likely to spend fixing it.

Magnumite · Nov 19, 2015

Mitchell Arms (now defunct) also made some Gold Match or something like that pistol. With the slide rib and everything. Might have had front cocking serrations, I don't recall.

Armati · Nov 19, 2015

The "laser sighting" is mandatory on the AMT Longslide.

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Hardballer-ish 1911 ?

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